Wheel-holder for railway-cars



0. M. MCGUIRE.

WHEEL HOLDER FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24. 1921.

1,394,31 I Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTIS MCGUIRE, OF BRIDGEPORT, NEBRASKA.

WHEEL-HOLDER FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

Application filed June 24,

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Orrrs M. McGUIRn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Morrill, State of Nebraska,have invented a new and useful VVheel-Holder for Railway-Cars; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the inventlon, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to wheel holders for railway cars, and has for itsobject to provide a device of this character adapted to be secured tothe journal box of a truck and extend upwardly and arch over the upperside of the truck wheel and form means whereby upon breaking bf thejournal with in the journal box, the journal box will be prevented fromdropping downwardly into engagement with the cross ties of the railwayand causing the car to be wrecked and cars following to be wrecked, saidwheel being held in sliding engagement with the rail by the wheelholder.

It has been found that where a journal becomes broken that sometimes thewheels become stuck, and the wheels will slide for miles on the railwithout derailing the train,

therefore it is a further object to provide positive means for holdingthe wheel in engagement with the rail after the journal has becomebroken or burnt Off.

With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in thecombination and may be made within the scope of what is claimed withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway car truckshowing the wheel holders applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the wheel holders. 7

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a truck beam, and 2journal boxes carried thereby for the reception of journals 3 of thewheels 4 and in which Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

1921. Serial No. 480,084.

journal boxes the journals 3 are rotatably mounted and surrounded withlubricant. It has been found that the journals 3 at times break or areburnt off, and under which conditions one of the ends 2 of the beam 1drops and engages the road bed, particularly the cross ties andconsequently the train is derailed, particularly the car carrying thebeam 1 the cars following. To overcome this difiiculty and to providemeans for holding the wheels 4 in slidable engagement with the treads 5of the rails 6, wheel holders 7 are provided. Each wheel holder 7comprises a plate 8 secured as at 9 to the upper side of the journal box2, and having upwardly extending diverging arms 10, the upper ends ofwhich arms are provided with arched portions 11, which arch the upperside 12 of the wheel and terminate in an arcuate connecting bar 13 whichoverlies the upper side 12 of the wheel. It will be seen that if thejournal 3 becomes broken that the upper side 12, will when the journalbox 4t drops downwardly, be engaged by the arched portions 11 of thewheel holder 7, and that said wheel will be held in sliding engagementwith the tread 5, thereby preventing derailment, and at the same timeallowing the train to be propelled in the usual manner to a place wherethe car with the broken journal may be repaired or replaced with a newcar. It has been found that where the journals have been worn or brokenand the wheel becomes stuck in some manner with its tread in engagementwith the tread of the rail, that the car may be moved for many miles bythe wheel supporting the car and sliding on the rail. It will be seenthat the wheel holder will provide positive means for holding the wheelwhere by it may be moved for great distances without danger. It willalso be seen that the device is simple in construction and so constructed that it may be easily and quickly applied to trucks now in usewithout modifying the construction of the truck.

The invention having been set forth what is claimed as new and useful isA wheel and truck holding device of the character described, said devicecomprising a plate secured to the truck adjacent the journal box, saiddevice having upwardly and redially extending arms, the upper ends Intestimony whereof I have signed my of said arms arching over the upperside of name to this specification in the presence of the Wheel atspaced points from :each other two subscribing Witnesses.

and a connecting bar connecting the ends of OTTIS M. MCGUIRE. 5 thearched portions of the arms together, Witnesses:

said her being disposed on the opposite side R. O. CANADAY,

of the Wheel. 7 MABEL ERIGKSON.

